Obituaries

Now Evie’s favourite flag as a toddler was a colourful rainbow flag, she had been persuading him to put it up for 3 or 4 years before anyone let on this was a flag used mainly by the gay community. Ronnie didn’t care, he just wanted to see Evie smile. Three years later and Thomas was born, and he had another grandchild to spoil. He was thrilled to see Thomas out learning to sail as part of the clubs Junior Sail Training scheme.

In 2018 Anna married Dave but sadly at that point he was too elderly to make it up to the wedding, he would have loved to have been there. His last years were tough, growing old is not kind but he still had his sense of humour and I believe he has passed this down the generations. I was sitting on his bed with Evie and Thomas at Woodland care home just over a year ago, Ronnie had broken his hip and was being craned into a wheel chair, the staff were, as ever, fantastic however I was not allowed to help for insurance reasons. I playfully elbowed Evie and suggested that one day she would have to look after me like this.

Evie looked back at me, rolled her eyes and said, “We will have taken you to Switzerland well before you get to this stage!” Ronnie would have chortled at this!

So goodbye Ronnie, Daddy and Grandad. Thank you for being the nicest, kindest, most gentle, giant of a man. You inspired us all!

Ronnie Howard died on 9th February 2020.

Jeffrey Evans (Common Room)

An image of Jeff, smiling, limping and with a cheerful greeting never less than forte, lives clearly in my memory, as it will, doubtless, for so many of those whose lives were touched by this natural schoolmaster. Jeff was his own man, a rebel perhaps, loath to be bound by teaching convention or Ofsted diktats. An instinct for communication with young minds led him to tread original paths as he inspired them to share his love of literature. Dedication to his pupils marked Jeff out, for he served them in so many areas of school life - in G social, where he was sub-tutor, in the classroom, in the CCF, in numerous societies - particularly debating, drama and music and in his commitment to team coaching on the sports field.

A headmaster’s dream - and yet also potentially the reverse, for Jeff had a razor-sharp (but always witty) mind and spoke as he found, a characteristic which meant that he was distanced at times from others in the common room. Yet storm clouds of difference dissipated rapidly, letting the real Jeff shine through. Here was a passionate devotee of his subject and a man of great humanity, a committed evangelical Christian able to identify with those suffering under life’s sorrows. It was a loss for Radley in so many ways when he moved to his final post as Head of Department at St Bees, where he flourished happily in the company of Max, his beloved black labrador. I will not be alone in sorrow at recently learning of his premature passing aged 68 as a result of a heart attack in March 2018, six months after I last saw him at his Cumbrian home. Written by Robert Gower.

Jeffrey Evans died in March 2018.

Frank Grenfell (Common Room 1972–1979)

Educated at Eton and Cambridge (where he read Natural Sciences), Frank Grenfell’s first job was in satellite communication with the Post Office (British Telecom) but he decided the business world was not for him. In 1967 he joined a government run scheme to train as a Physics teacher in Uganda, staying to become Head of Physics at Busoga College, Mwiri. In 1972 he returned to England, teaching Physics and coaching rowing at Radley. In 1979, he moved to Canford School, where he met Susan Madeley, and within the year he had married her. In 1983 they moved to Eton. Frank continued to coach Rowing, becoming River Master in 1991. Their three children, Andrew, Peter and Elizabeth, were born and raised here and he was enormously proud of them. The boys he taught appreciated his uniquely engaging style of teaching and many chose careers in science as a result. Frank spent a lot of time researching Eton Blue and his booklet on the subject is in the Eton College Library. He gave himself wholeheartedly to the life of the school and shared a deep commitment to the forming young men of character and integrity.

In 1993, Frank took his young family out to India for a sabbatical year to teach at Woodstock International School in Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas.

On his retirement in 2004, he moved to Oxford, where he has been involved and committed in the life of St Andrew’s Church. He taught part-time at St Gregory Comprehensive, Magdalen College Schol and The Oratory, as well as private tuition. A keen cyclist, he was the treasurer for Bike Safe, a charity campaigning for a community path along the Eynsham Road. His main hobby however, was researching and updating his family tree, putting it into digital format for all his relations. He and Susan spent the last four years travelling the world, in 2018 walking from Amalfi to Sorento. His diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease in January 2019 did not stop him from going to Israel and

Frank Grenfell

he always remained positive and cheerful throughout his rapid decline in health.

Frank Grenfell died on 3rd December 2019.

Seymour, AJC (1932, G)

Tribute read at his funeral: 102! It’s an astonishing age for anyone to reach. When he was a mere 91 we asked him to tell the secret to a long life, which, according to him, was simple. Never stay in wet clothes. Eat good food. Have no truck whatsoever with foreign food. And take regular exercise.

Adrian was a very loyal man. Loyal to his country, his family, his regiment, his schools and his university, and – last but not least – his friends. He was of the generation who all knew what they were doing when they heard of the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, and there aren’t many of those people left alive today. Although there were four years between Adrian and his younger brother Francis, they were very close as children. They were both were educated at Cothill and then Radley. At Radley, Adrian overlapped with Desmond Llewelyn, later familiar to many as ‘Q’ in several James Bond films. However, never was there anyone less like Q than Adrian! He was totally uninterested in modern technology, which was probably why, many years later, he and his 1950s Fordson Super Dexta tractor got along so well together. Certainly no one could have persuaded him to use a jetpack or an exploding fountain pen. In fact, it took the rest of his family about ten years to persuade him even to use a ‘ball point pen’.

On graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, where he had studied Agriculture in anticipation of becoming a land agent, Adrian was already doing his National Service with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry when war broke out, but he soon switched to the Scots Guards, his father’s old regiment. For a while he was stationed at the Tower of London, where prisoners of war were kept until they were escorted by him and others to camps around the country. He crossed the Channel in July 1944, 46 days after D-Day, as part of the Third Guards Armoured Division. After fighting across Normandy and on into the Netherlands, he ended the war near the Baltic in Northern Germany. In 1947/48 he was stationed in Trieste in northern Italy, which was a happy time for him. Here he formed several life-long friendships and, for the first time in many years, he had the chance to travel. After postings both in London and abroad, he was sent to work in the London office of a fierce general, who had a pretty daughter, Elizabeth. By the time he and Elizabeth had become engaged, the fierce general – who had mellowed a bit – had become Deputy Constable of Dover Castle, so they were married in Dover Castle church in the snow on St Valentine’s Day. That same year he had a visible role in the queen’s coronation procession, and later worked on Operation Hope Not, the code name for planning Churchill’s funeral.

On leaving the army he and Elizabeth bought Wantsley, a small farm in West Dorset where they lived for forty years. Here they bred generations of prizewinning Dexter cattle and miniature ponies. They also had bloodhounds, and competed successfully in working trials for over fifteen years. He came to church here, served on the PCC, and was generally well-known in the area. After a nasty tractor accident in 1975, he started a new career with the British Fields Sports Society (now the Countryside Alliance). In those days ‘conservation’ was the new buzz word, a concept he was quick to embrace as it tied in with his own love and knowledge of the countryside. Yet that decade will forever be marked by the death of his younger daughter Angie, who was killed in a car accident in 1979, aged only 21.

He had a great love of cricket, with a wonderful memory for matches he had been to. By the time he turned 102 he was, we think, the third-oldest living member of the MCC. The highlight of his own playing career was as the captain of the winning battalion team in an army competition in 1953. As a spectator his career lasted much longer: he first went to a Test match at Lord’s in 1926 (against Australia, ending in a draw) and his last visit there was in 2005 (again against Australia – Australia won), and so it is quite fitting to say that he had a good innings.

For his grandchildren, weekends spent at Wantsley involved a revolving timetable of activities such as ragwort extermination, Adrian Seymour revisiting Radley in 2009.

an introduction to horse racing via Channel 4, learning the finer points of shoe-polishing, and many other things that were, to them, simply ‘Grandfather stuff’.

After he sold the farm, he spent the next seven years with our family at Home Farm, Bryanston. Here he enjoyed living in a village again, and became a familiar figure in the area, striding out in all weathers until well after his 90th birthday, still ramrod straight.

His last years were spent in the wonderful care of the kind-hearted people at Millbrook House. Although old age took its toll, he retained his dry humour and held onto the ‘correct form of things’ as much as he could. For as long as he was mobile, he continued to struggle to his feet every time a female resident came into the room, and his shoes received their daily polish.

In the letters we have received over the last few days he is almost always described as having been a real gentleman, a very kind man. Someone who had worked for him described him as the kindest man he had ever met. As one writer put it, ‘He epitomised the best of that pre-war generation of military men: kind, brave, stoic, modest and with a great sense of duty.’ Another wrote, ‘we can enjoy reflecting on a full life nobly lived.’

Adrian John Conway Seymour died on 12th September 2020.

Hewitt, G (1933, G)

During Gordon Hewitt’s time at Radley he was made a sergeant in the OTC as well as being a Classified Signaller, and also rowed in the 3rd VIII. After leaving Radley in 1937, he worked for a year in Hamburg, before returning to the UK and joining the TA. On the outbreak of war, he initially served in the Royal Artillery as part of the 51st Highland Division, and was fortunate to avoid the surrender at St Valery in 1940. He later joined the 2nd Highland Light Infantry in a beachgroup invading Sicily, where he was mentioned in despatches in August 1944 and was promoted to Major. He was attached to the 8th Army Headquarters Staff and spent most of the rest of the war on the Adriatic. After the war, he joined his father at W T Copeland & Sons at their Spode china works in Stoke-on-Trent, where he would remain for the rest of his career. He travelled widely on sales and worked his way up to Managing Director.

On retiring from playing rugby, where by his own admission he became a ‘very useful hooker’, he continued his involvement as a referee. He helped form the Staffordshire Rugby Referees on their breakaway from the North Midlands and continued to whistle until aged 50! He was a founder member of North Staffs NADFAS (now the Art Society) and started a Church Recording group, which he continued to do well into his 90s. Marrying Sybil Fraser, together they had three sons, one of whom would continue in the family tradition and become a wellknown studio potter in North Carolina. He remained in contact with Radley throughout his life, from donating money from his own village Welcome Home Fund to the War Memorial Fund at Radley, to organising a Staffordshire ORs dinner in 1964 for those not able to make it to London for the official OR Dinner.

Gordon Hewitt died, aged 100, on 2nd April 2020.

Tyson, JEA (1934, A)

After leaving the College, John Tyson went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, from where he donated to the War Memorial at Radley. He remained in contact with the College until the 1990s.

John Edward Alexander Tyson died on 3rd May 2019.

Jones, GR (1935, E)

Rifleman in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps

Roy’s Eulogy, by his wife Pat: Always known as Roy, although I understand he was called ‘Gerry’ during the war, he was born in North Finchley, London, on the 22nd April 1922.

Roy was educated at Elstree Preparatory School from the age of 7 to 13 and then at Radley College at Abingdon, near Oxford, from 1935. A wonderful school, which Roy always kept in touch with. As an Old Radleian he was invited to lunch and a service in the chapel several times. We enjoyed many lovely occasions looking we found the grave of one of Roy’s fellow card to him which said:

around the old and new buildings and meeting with many old students and some of the recent ones. Roy’s joy was rowing, especially at Henley. He was a ‘wet bob’ i.e. rowing, in contrast to a ‘dry bob’ i.e. cricket!

Many years ago, he took me to see the boathouse, along the path he used to cycle down and showed me where there used to be a swimming pool. He had to be able to swim two lengths before he was allowed on the river.

He shared a study with John Whiteley, later Lord John Marchamley – they were great friends for the rest of their lives until John died in 1994 – we enjoyed many the years, mostly when we lived in Devon, where John had a farm. I know that Roy loved Radley life and then came the war. At Radley, Roy had joined the Army Cadet Corps, so after leaving school, he enlisted in June 1940 at the age of 18. Initially he was an Infantry (soldiers marching double time!). He then went to Glasgow University until 1941 as a special entry Royal Artillery Cadet. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery (Anti-Tank) Regiment and was a Captain from 1941 until 1946, when he became a civilian again.

Roy saw service in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Italy & Greece. Several years ago, we travelled to Monte Casino in Italy to visit the War Cemeteries in the area, with the help of the War Graves Commission. In the Casino Cemetery Officers, who had died during the battle and had been buried near the river. After the war all bodies were removed to the War Cemetery and headstones erected, where possible. Roy laid a poppy spray on his friend’s grave and he wrote a lovely happy days with John and his wife over

For Dougie and all other Gunners of the 14th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery ‘Tight Line’ Roy Jones

We held a short ceremony with a Padre and a Piper, which was very moving.

Roy Jones, third row, fifth from left, with the E Social Platoon, 1939.

Roy used to tell me that he was the only man ever to use oxen to haul anti-tank guns in Italy!

When Roy returned home, he joined his Father’s office in London for a couple of years, but as he caught Pleurisy during the War, he was advised to move into the country. He joined a Government Sponsored Agricultural Scheme. He was employed at two farms, in Devon (cows) & Kent (apples) and completed a year’s course as a Student at Shuttleworth Agricultural College, where he gained a diploma.

Realising in the early 1950s that there was no money in farming unless you owned the land, he decided he needed a new career. Roy’s father, was asked to value the estate of a small family Brewery in Yorkshire and during this work, it was agreed that Roy could become a pupil at the Brewery for a year, without remuneration, when he would learn the art of malting, brewing and pasteurising of beer. Additionally, he studied bottling, transport, managed house and tenanted house administration, along with free -trade sales. Other studies included repairs needed to the pubs, accounts and tenancy changeovers. All in all, a very comprehensive training programme. Roy then became a Managed House Manager for Hammonds Yorkshire Brewery in Bradford, Huddersfield and York. I met Roy when I started work as a Junior Secretary in the Tenanted House Department around 1958 in the Bradford Brewery and Roy and I were married in York in December 1960. Sadly, it would have been our Diamond Anniversary in December this year.

During the first years of our marriage, we moved several times to employment at different Breweries. Brewing was so very different in those days – very gentlemanly, mostly family Breweries and a very close-knit trade. Roy worked for Flowers Brewery in Luton, Greenhall Whitley in St Helens, Lancashire, and Ushers Brewery in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, where Roy became the Personnel Manager. This appointment was offered mainly because the Managing Director, Alan Seward, had been a fellow pupil at Radley College! Sometimes it is ‘who you know’. I remember Ushers had a dray with two Shire horses, which was often seen around the Trowbridge area delivering barrels of beer. Eventually, Ushers Brewery was taken over by Watney’s Brewery and Roy worked in London at Watney House and then at Mortlake Brewery on the River Thames, where he could watch the boat race every April. The family continued to live in Wiltshire.

Roy retired when he was 68 and continued for several years working with the Royal British Legion, escorting widows and family members to visit War Graves in France, Holland and Belgium. He thoroughly enjoyed this work. Over the years Roy was Secretary & Chairman of the Welfare Committee and a Member of the Okehampton RBL Committee. The Welfare work was very important to Roy and he spent many hours visiting military members and their families to arrange financial help. He took great pride in joining the Okehampton Remembrance Service at the church, which is on the top of the hill. The British Legion Members and Soldiers stationed at Okehampton Camp marched up the hill and back down again – in rain or shine, every year. It was always an impressive ceremony and I was always so proud. He did this for 15 years until we moved to Thorverton, a village near Exeter. Roy was very keen on motor sport, horse racing (many trainers are Old Radleians), football and cricket and he always kept an eye on Radley rowing at Henley! He was also a keen Somerset Cricket supporter. Bob and he had many conversations about the latest sport personalities or recent matches be it football, cricket or rugby and they went together to see Somerset play in Taunton. Bob took Roy to several Cricket matches at Taunton, before he became too frail to go out for the whole day. They enjoyed fish & chips and a pint of beer for lunch.

At the age of 93 Roy was taken ill with a brain haemorrhage but after an operation in Derriford Hospital and 10 weeks recovering in hospital, he was able to move into the RBL Residential Home, Dunkirk Memorial House in Bishop’s Lydeard. Roy was a Resident for over 4 years. Although not very mobile, his mind was still very sharp and he loved reading. He had the Telegraph every day and the Spectator every week, so he was able to keep up with politics, news and sport. He still had a lovely personality and the girls at the Home loved his sense of humour and he was always teasing them. Dearest Roy - Bob and I, Anthony & Diana and your 6 Grandchildren will always love you and miss you, although we will always have lots and lots of lovely memories to keep and treasure.

Goodbye my lovely man. – rest in peace after your wonderful and very interesting life. You will always have a special place in my heart.

Gerald Roy Jones died on 12th April 2020.

Thornhill, AL (1935, H)

Alan Thornhill, sculptor, was born on 16th December 1921 and died on 4th March 2020 at home in Gloucestershire. He is best known as creator of the Putney Sculpture Trail, the largest outdoor collection of work by one artist in London. Born in London in 1921, Alan grew up in Fittleworth, Sussex, and was educated at Brambletye and Radley College. He went up to New College in 1939 to read History.

In late 1940 Alan enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment. He took part in the D-Day landings and later became a conscientious objector after the bombing of Dresden. Alan returned to New College from 1946-48. He taught English in Italy briefly after the war, and having had Reichian therapy in Norway decided he wanted to work creatively with his hands. Alan enrolled at Camberwell Art School where he began his life-long exploration of clay. There he met painter Sheila Denning whom he married. In 1951, he set up Hawkley Pottery near Stroud, Gloucestershire. His pots were selected for the Council of Industrial Design’s Index of Good Design and shown regularly at the Guild of Gloucestershire Craftsmen.

Alan Thornhill

Growing tired of the repetitive nature of pottery, Alan began to make figurative sculptures in clay, exploring the theme of communication. On moving to London in 1959 he set up a studio in Putney which he maintained until his death.

Alan pioneered a radical and improvisatory approach to claywork which involved dispensing with an internal armature and allowing content to emerge from his unconscious. Abstract pieces of the 1960s developed into large semi-formed groups of figures. Pacifism, Jungian psychology, and world conflicts were themes which emerged organically in his work. Alan also made a large number of portrait busts from life including Tom Stoppard, Sir Colin Davis, A S Neill, Basil Bunting, Mannie Shinwell, and Enoch Powell. In 1981 Dennis Silk, Headmaster of Radley, sat for his portrait.

Alan taught ceramics at Kingston School of Art and Barking Regional College and sculpture at Morley College in South London for seventeen years from 1970. Aged 80 he became a trustee and then teacher at the Frink School of Figurative Sculpture in Staffordshire founded by Rosemary Barnett FRBS.

In later life, Alan painted prolifically, creating self-portraits, still lives and landscapes of Gloucestershire and France, together with large bold charcoal drawings. He moved from London to Stroud in 1994 with his partner Kate Shuckburgh and in 2012 had a major retrospective at Stroud’s Museum in the Park.

Alan had 12 one-man shows including at the Drian Gallery, The National Theatre, the Orangery in Holland Park, Putney Exchange, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and Kingscote Park in Gloucestershire. Nine large bronze groups of figures by Alan now form the permanent Putney Sculpture Trail, opened in 2008, along the Thames Embankment in South London. Alan is survived by three children, Anna, Teresa with Sheila Denning and Philip Bittner.

A documentary film about his life and work made by his daughter Anna is visible on his website: www.alanthornhill.co.uk

Alan Lytton Thornhill died on 4th March 2020.

Mosenthal, BH (1936, F)

According to his own words, Commander Basil Mosenthal had a ‘not particularly distinguished career at Radley’, but he fondly remembered being a stage hand on the Dons’ plays.

Leaving Radley in 1939, he pursued a Naval Cadetship and entered the RNVR in 1941. He went on to be granted a Regular Commission in 1947, rising to the rank of Commander in 1961. He would go on to become a bestselling marine author and publisher, producing many simple illustrated books on various aspects of sailing.

Ohlenschlager, RN (1939, E)

Brigadier Richard Norman Ohlenschlager MBE came to Radley in 1939, a member of E Social (Hope’s), and was appointed Senior Prefect in 1943. Upon leaving Radley, and with the fear of being sent down the mines as a Bevin Boy, he joined up in 1944, enlisting in the Artillery, a branch of the forces he was to remain in throughout his service career. After a stint at Edinburgh University to ‘learn the basics of gunnery and do some growing up’, he took up his post as a subaltern.

Over the following years he rose through the ranks to be Lt Col of 42 Median Regiment, RA in 1966 and then Brigadier of the Royal Artillery 1st Division in 1968. After study at the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1972, he continued to work in the MoD, before his final posting as Commandant of the Royal School of Artillery from 1976-78.

The bust of Dennis Silk by Alan Thornhill.

Richard Ohlenschlager with Warden Wilkes in the 1943 Prefects photograph.

Richard was awarded an OBE in 1963, having been on loan to the Government of the Federation of Malaya.

He corresponded with Vyvyan Hope for many years after leaving Radley, remained close with a number of his school friends and returned several times to visit the College after his retirement. During his last visit in 2018, he noted how different it was from his time there and that Radley was obviously in good shape.

His son, also Richard (1965) was also at Radley, also in E Social.

Richard Norman Ohlenschlager died on 25th April 2020.

Haddon, R (1940, A)

Richard Haddon was born in Iver on the 18th March 1927, to Geoffrey and Norah who were living at a house called Glaisdale, Ritchings Park, Iver, Bucks. Richard was an only child but was surrounded on the estate by other Aunts & Uncles living nearby, and, together with his cousin Maurice, would play with other children on the Ritchings Park Estate. (Aunt Julie lived for a time opposite with his Grandmother, Puggy). He became known for re-packaging chocolate bars, with mud-pies to sell to unsuspecting passers by!

When Richard was old enough, he went to Rutland House prep school in Hanwell, travelling by steam train. This led to his lifelong interest in model railways. He excelled in his Academic studies and did well at school Athletics, winning prizes for both. He would also cycle up to St Albans to visit his Aunt Julie, who

by then had moved and set up a Family Photography Business. Due to his dislike of cricket, he was enrolled and won a place to Radley, arriving in Michaelmas Term 1940. He joined Paton’s (A Social), was introduced to rowing, and enjoyed cycling down to the river to mess about in boats. Sometimes bunking off to Oxford, when he should have been sculling. He excelled at all things academic, literary and the dramatic arts. He had inherited from his Grandfather Trevor an aptitude for Art, enjoying his membership of the Marionette, Art and Drama Societies. Drama in the ‘Old Gym’ was his forte helping out with painting the scenery. He was cast in the School plays, with his celebrated performance as Falstaff in Henry IV Part 1, still fondly remembered today!

The review at the time: ‘...a really distinguished presentation of that blackguardly but adorable old blighter; in fact I have never seen in any performance, amateur or professional, that aristocratic quality which should be present in him however much drowned in sack and knavery, so well maintained; and the startling depths of Haddon’s voice got over another difficulty when someone under twenty plays someone over sixty. His gestures too were natural and free; he was at ease upon the stage, and had evidently been sensitive to the discerning production that underlay his performance.’

The Haddon Cup was presented to the College by his parents to nurture future Radley talent. Richard went on to become Senior Prefect - his study being on the corner of Croome’s arch looking onto Paton’s Quad.

He won a place at Christs College, Cambridge, and joined the College University Mummers, taking roles in plays such as I killed the Count and Noel Cowards The Young Idea. The war intervened when he was called up to join the Royal Marines (U4 Squad of the 34th Amphibian Support Regiment) driving ‘Duks’ in preparation for the invasion of Japan, luckily they were never called upon.

He returned to Radley to take part in the centennial 1947 celebrations playing the role of Warden Wilson in the review ‘Radley Rectrospect’, performed in front of Princess Elizabeth. After the Marines, he joined Wessex Films run by Ian Dalrymple & Alexander Korda with the responsibility of writing the script for the film, The Wooden Horse, produced at Pinewood. It was here that he met many of the ‘names’ that he would bump into later in his career. Around this time his mother Norah died from TB, having been poorly through most of the war. Luckily soon after Richard met our mother Barbara, introduced by Sandy Burgess (OR), his great friend from Radley. Richard and Barbara married in 1951 at the Parish Church in Windsor, setting up home in Datchet with their standard poodles, ‘one white and one filthy’! Horton Cottage was the first of the many houses they would move into over their 66 happy years together. Along the way the family grew with the arrival of Nicholas in 1956, Julian in 1959 and Gail in 1961. Godparents being their lifelong friends, Sandy & Rosalind Burgess, Trevor and Ann Clark, Charles Harvey and Betty Henry.

Richard meanwhile moved from films into Publishing. His Encyclopedia, Modern Book of Flying, and Pictorial History Book are on offer on Ebay today! In 1954 he produced some freelance reporting work for the magazine Everywoman, interviewing Norman Wisdom, Kenneth More and Richard Burton. He was invited to join the family firm Haddons, an advertising company, producing commercials. Whilst working there that he became disenchanted with the way the firm was being run and applied to join BAT advertising department based in No 4 Cowley Street, Milbank. He became Head of Advertising within 5 years, ably helped for the rest of his career by his devoted secretary Joan Collins.

With his creative flair he commissioned commercials from advertising agencies and production companies and made many friends from all parts of the world. His career travels took him to: Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Lebanon, Cyprus, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Australia and New Zealand. Richard ended his time at BAT, heading up the Group Public Affairs division for BAT Industries, ably assisted by his great team, who remained in contact with him to this day. In 1982 he retired and would continually say in later life that he drew a BAT pension for longer than his salary!

He and Barbara moved down to Sussex from Ascot, before returning to be closer to their Grandson, Jonathan. For a brief time, Richard sat on the Local Parish Council. He enjoyed his garden, his Family, foreign holidays and spending time with Jonathan (OR) visiting old school haunts such as Papplewick and Radley. After a brief time in Gloucestershire, they returned to settle by the coast in West Sussex. Upon the death of his father, he found a diary in his attic written by his Uncle Colin, an early pioneer in British Columbia. He wrote an enquiry letter to his old ranch and was amazed to receive a response from the Residents. He was particularly grateful that he managed to find and mark his Uncle Colin’s grave in Kaslo, BC. He appreciated the enormous help from the Gray Creek Historical Society in this and would proudly show friends their publication of Colin’s diaries and stories.

In later years he enjoyed life with Barbara by the sea, chatting to friends, old and new, and downing copious amounts of G & T’s! So Long, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen and Goodbye! ‘Be Seeing You……..’

Richard Haddon died on 24th April 2020.

Richard Haddon at Gaudy 2010, with his back to the cricket.

Aldersmith, MF (1940, C)

Upon leaving Radley in 1944, where he had played for the Hockey 1st XI, Michael Aldersmith went up to New College, Oxford, on an RAF Course. He would spend the next 37 years in the Air Force, rising to the rank of Wing Commander. His service took him all over the world, from the USA, to Singapore, to Brussels where he worked at NATO Headquarters. Upon retiring, he moved to Scarborough with his wife, Irene, where he remained involved with the RAF as President of the local Aircrew Association Branch.

Michael Frederick Aldersmith died on 2nd August 2012.

Allen, HC (1940, E)

Hugh Allen’s Radley career saw him appointed as a Prefect and represent the 1st XV and the 1st VIII in 1943/4, where he was also Captain of Boats in 1944. Upon leaving the College, he joined the Grenadier Guards in January 1945 and served as a Guardsman until the end of the war. At the end of his service in Company in Vevey, Switzerland. It was to be a company he worked for for over 40 years, retiring in 1988.

Whilst in Switzerland, he married Jennifer Parker in 1952, and together they had two children.

Hugh Clifford Allen died on 4th July 2020.

Normand, PI (1941, D)

From The Daily Telegraph, 24 July 2020: Lieutenant-Commander Ian Normand, who has died aged 92, flew fighterbombers in the Korean War, and as a naval aero-engineer and test pilot was one of the first men to fly at more than 1,000mph.

Normand was flying the Seafire Mark 47e, the ultimate and definitive version of the famous Spitfire, at the Navy’s Operational Flying School when the Korean War broke out. He progressed to the Hawker Sea Fury, the last propeller-driven fighterbomber in the Navy and one of the fastest production single reciprocating engine aircraft ever built. In it he learnt aerial combat, bombing and deck landing in the 1947 he applied for a job with the Nestlé

carrier Triumph in the English Channel. He joined 804 Naval Air Squadron in the carrier Glory when she was on her third patrol off Korea. There, the Fleet Air Arm had reached pitch perfection: each pilot sometimes flew three and even four sorties a day, serviceability was extremely high, and aircraft landed and took off at halfminute intervals.

Normand was rated as an exceptional pilot, and when Glory was relieved after two more patrols, he was one of the pilots selected to take his experience to the carrier Ocean and 802 Naval Air Squadron. Between March and November 1952, he flew 150 sorties over North Korea against bridges, tanks, and artillery positions.

Hugh Allen (middle row, centre) as Captain of Boats of the 1944 1st VIII. On April 22, on his afternoon sortie, Normand lost power but nursed his aircraft to a safe landing on an offshore island: one of the Navy’s highly skilled aero-engineers, he professionally noted “fuel starvation” in his flying logbook.

Patrick Ian Normand always claimed that he was born in prison: in fact, he was born on July 13 1927 at Fort House, Johannesburg, where his father was governor of prisons for the Transvaal. Normand Snr had ridden with the Matabeleland Mounted Police on the Jameson Raid of 1896 and had been awarded the DSO at the Siege of Ladysmith, but when he was forced out of office by the Afrikaner government of South Africa, the family returned to Scotland. Apart from a few years when his mother escaped the bitter weather to convalesce in South Africa, young Normand was educated in Britain.

In 1944, when the Admiralty still enjoyed a vision of immortality and was the only service recruiting permanent career officers, Normand passed the examination for special entry into the Navy. After a spell at the naval college at its wartime home, Eaton Hall, Chester, in 1945 he started studies at the Royal Naval Engineering College at Keyham, Devonport, to specialise as an engineer. His four-year degree course included several months at sea in the carriers Illustrious and Victorious where he gained his auxiliary watchkeeping certificate on steam plants, before sub-specialising in aero-engineering. Normand took on his first flight in July 1950 and flew solo after just five hours and 40 minutes’ training.

After Korea, from 1953-55 Normand learned to fly in the jet-engined de Havilland Vampire and the Hawker Sea Hawk and, as a maintenance test pilot, he took delivery of new aircraft from the manufacturer. Then, after a three-month helicopter course, Normand joined the course at the Empire Test Pilot School, Farnborough.

On graduation he worked on armaments and flight testing, then tested catapults and arrester gear for aircraft carriers, before beginning a study of reheat orifices in supersonic aircraft. Much of this later work was done in the Fairey Delta 2 which, with its revolutionary drop-nose and swept-back wing, was a forerunner

of Concorde. Only three years previously, Lieutenant-Commander Peter Twiss had smashed the world air speed record in the FD2, and in July 1959 Normand became one of the first half-dozen men to follow Twiss and fly at more than 1,000mph. Contemporaries regarded Normand’s flying skills as “amazing”, especially after he demonstrated inverted spins in Hawker Hunters.

Other appointments in Normand’s 30-year naval career included senior air engineer and maintenance testing at RNAS Brawdy in Pembrokeshire and RNAS Abbotsinch, Glasgow, and senior air engineer the teaching staff at RNEC Manadon. In 1966 he returned for three years to RAE Farnborough as a tutor at the Empire Test Pilot School, and in 1969-71 he served on exchange at the US Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River as head of flight testing. His final appointment was at Boscombe Down, where he wrote and amended pilots’ notes, the essential guides on how to fly each type of aircraft.

Normand was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1970. On leaving the Navy, in 1975-76 Normand worked briefly for Chemring Group – best-known at the time for the manufacture of “chaff”, a defence against radar-guided missile threats to aircraft – where his father-inlaw was a non-executive director. But commercial life did not suit Normand, and he joined the Civil Aviation Authority. He was initially responsible for issuing licences to operators, but in 1980 he became a flight operations inspector. Required to maintain his pilot’s licence, he would invite friends and family to join him on flights which were often jaunts to Calais or Le Touquet for lunch, returning with duty-free alcohol, or helicopter flights along the Thames.

When Normand retired from the CAA in 1989 after a 40-year flying career he had flown more than 3,000 accident-free hours in 124 different types of aircraft, both fixed-wing and rotary.

Normand was a keen rough shooter who often developed lasting friendships with farmers and landowners, and an eager gardener who left a succession of married quarters with beautiful gardens. As a glider pilot he gave much time to teaching others, and, until electronics made home servicing impossible, he would never Ian Normand in the cockpit of his Hawker Sea Fury.

engage a third party to maintain or repair his cars.

In 1951 Ian Normand married Mary Bishop, the elder daughter of Sir Harold Bishop. She died in 2001, and he married Christine Houseley (née Try). He is survived by two sons and two daughters. to become Head of Chancery in Warsaw from 1975-78 and then was Deputy High Commissioner in Wellington, particular the fractal nature of octagons. New Zealand, from 1978-86. His final ambassadorial post before his retirement was to Bulgaria from 1986-89. He was made a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1986.

Patrick Ian Normand died on 28th June 2020.

Fawcett, JH (1942, D)

John Fawcett’s Radley career was exemplary and a forerunner of his future diplomatic career. Arriving in 1942, he was Junior Scholar and Heathcote Scholar in 1943, James Scholar in 1946 and won Open Horace Waddington Scholarship in Classics to University College, Oxford, for which he received a 1st Class degree, he initially went into industry with the British Oxygen Company Ltd. This included a stint working in South Africa, and it was not long after his return that John entered the Foreign Service in 1963.

His distinguished diplomatic career took him initially to India, Trinidad and Iceland, before his first Ambassadorial posting to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1974. From here he moved Throughout his later life, John took more and more interest in mathematics, in

the Gold Medal in 1947. Awarded the His article on this subject was published in the Mathematic Association magazine in 2017.

John Harold Fawcett died on 14th December 2019.

Napier, LAH (1942, F)

From The Daily Telegraph, 5 August 2020: Major General Lennox Napier, who has died aged 92, won an MC in Malaya in 1957 during the Emergency; later, as chairman of the Rail Users Consultative Committee, he held the government to account over its privatisation plans. Napier, then a captain serving in Malaya with 1st Bn The South Wales Borderers (1 SWB), was in charge of training for jungle operations against the Communist terrorists. He was also an expert in night ambushes and was responsible for killing

several terrorists at considerable risk to himself. He led his young trainees in many enterprises where the presence of terrorists was suspected. On one occasion, he led a charge which flushed out two terrorists. One was killed and Napier led the pursuit for the other.

He achieved the unusual feat of overtaking a terrorist in his own country. The man turned at bay and fired continuously at Napier who, disregarding the bullets, ran the fugitive into the ground and killed him. The citation for the award to Napier of an MC paid tribute to his inspiring leadership, high courage and aggressiveness over a period of 18 months which “accounted in no small measure for the successes which the battalion has achieved”.

Lennox Alexander Hawkins Napier, was born on June 28 1928 on his fathers’ farm near Broadway, Worcestershire. He was educated at Radley before going on to Sandhurst and was commissioned into the SWB in 1948.

where it was part of the occupation force in Eritrea, the former Italian colony. Two postings to Germany interspersed with three years in Malaya was followed in 1963 by his appointment as the British Liaison Staff Officer in Singapore and Malaya. This was followed by a move to Aden in 1967. Napier captained the SWB rugby XV and followed the fortunes of the Welsh international side keenly. He was a good rifle shot, competing regularly at Bisley. An excellent horseman, he rode both at point to points and at a number of meetings under National Hunt rules. In 1967, he assumed command of 1 SWB. The Battalion subsequently merged with the Welch Regiment at a parade at Cardiff Castle before Prince Charles, their new Colonel-in Chief. Napier, the first CO of the newly formed Royal Regiment of Wales (RRW), took the Regiment to Belfast in August 1969 in the early days of the Troubles. After instructing at the Joint Services Staff College, followed by a spell at the MoD, he commanded the Berlin Infantry Brigade. He worked closely with the American and French forces and took a keen interest in the politics of the city. His last three years in the Army were as GOC Wales and as Colonel Commandant of The Prince of Wales’s Division. In 1983 he took up the honorary role of Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Wales. During this appointment the Regiment celebrated 300 years of service to the Nation.

He joined the Regiment in the Sudan, Lennox Napier (middle row, first left) with the 1st XV in 1945.

Held in great respect and affection by all who served with him, on leaving the Army, he became an Inspector of Public Enquiries on roads and motorways. He also made a notable impact on the railway industry as chairman of the Central Rail Users Consultative Committee, using what he termed “forceful charm”. He subjected the government’s proposals for privatisation to rigorous scrutiny. “In the way it is being planned,” he was quoted as saying, “it could be a pantomime without a happy ending.”

Appointed MBE in 1965 and advanced to OBE in 1970, he was subsequently appointed CB in 1983. He was also active in Wales and Monmouthshire as Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Gwent.

Major General Lennox Napier married, in 1959, Jennifer Dawn Wilson. She predeceased him and he is survived by two daughters and a son. He followed in a family tradition going back five generations by completing his military career as Colonel of the Regiment.

Lennox Alexander Hawkins Napier died on 21st July 2020.

Wells, FG (1942, H)

Francis Wells was Senior Prefect during Radley’s Centenary celebrations in 1947 and had the singular honour of welcoming the then Princess Elizabeth to the College with a speech given entirely in Latin.

He remembers how in preparing for the speech he found to his dismay that he was “expected to address Her Royal Highness as ‘juvencula’, which my Latin dictionary translated as ‘heifer’. I remember my relief on finding its subsidiary meaning of ‘young

girl’.” Francis Wells as Senior Prefect in 1947.

Whilst at Radley, he was both Junior and Heathcote Scholar in 1942 and 1947 respectively and played for the lst XV in 1945-46. Upon leaving Radley he won an Open Minor Scholarship in Mathematics to King’s College, Cambridge, achiving a 1st Class, Economics Tripos.

His career as an economist blossomed and he worked for the UN Economic Commission for Europe from 1952-56 before taking a post with Courtauld’s Ltd. He then went on to the OECD in 1962, becoming Deputy Director in 1974, a post he held for the next nine years. In 1983, he became a freelance economic consultant and translator until his retirement.

He married Betty Bjorn in 1954 and together they had one daughter and one son.

Francis George Wells died on 2nd December 2019.

NB: For those interested in hearing Francis’ speech to HRH Princess Elizabeth, the original recordings of the event can be found on our archive page: www.radleyarchives.org.uk

Rosier, R (1943, D)

Roger Rosier was a School Prefect in his time at Radley. He married Anthia Carey in 1954, and they were parents to a son and a daughter, and grandparents and great-grandparents to 14 children, who will dearly miss him. “He was a lovely man who will be remembered for his wonderful sense of humor.”

Roger Rosier died on 20th April 2020.

Cornwell, AEF (1943, F)

A successful academic whilst at Radley, he was Junior Scholar in 1943 as well as a Prefect in 1947, it was on Bigside in the Summer Terms that Anthony Cornwell showed his prowess. Playing for the 1st XI in 1945 and 1946, he was appointed Captain of Cricket in 1947, a position he also held in Fencing. He would go onto play first-class cricket for Dorset and the Free Foresters.

On leaving Radley, he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to read Law, but never practised at the Bar. Instead moving first to Montreal, Canada and working as an advertising writer before moving to the USA, where he met Anthony Cornwell (middle row, centre) as Captain of Cricket in 1947.

and married a Greek American, Anna, a Research Psychologist. He continued working as an advertising executive in California and New York, including as creative director for a New York firm, eventually returning to the West coast and living in the Seattle area. He was the elder brother of the writer John le Carré.

Anthony Ewart Frank Cornwell died on 26th August 2017.

Clutsom, MAB (1944, E)

and in 1951 he joined Shell International as an Insurance Adviser. He would go on to work there for the next 36 years, completing a diploma in Management Studies at the British Institute of Management during his time there. He married Susan Spaull in 1961, together having 2 daughters. Upon retiring he took on volunteer charity work and fund raising and was a Probus Club member. He remained in contact with the College throughout his life.

Michael Arthur Boyd Clutsom died on 2nd April 2020.

Hudson, CN (1944, E)

Renowned gyncaecologist Professor Christopher Hudson’s career saw him not only develop a technique, ‘Hudson’s procedure’, that would greatly help the survival of women with ovarian cancer, but also help enhance pregnancy care in developing countries including Nigeria and Pakistan.

Joining Radley in 1944 as an Entrance Scholar, his academic achievements were not at the fore, but whilst at the College he gained a love for rowing that would stay with him. He obtained a Scholarship to Queens’ College, Cambridge, in 1949, before moving on to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he rowed and coached for Michael Clutsom left Radley in 1948

both Boat Clubs.

His clinical career saw him win several prizes (including the Hayward Prize, Edgar Gentill Prize, Victor Bonney Prize and the Faculty of Medicine Gold Medal from the University of Sydney), write 92 academic publications and five textbooks, and advise on numerous university and National health committees all over the world. Later in his career he carried a banner for the management of HIV in relation to pregnancy, which had considerable influence on attitudes and care of these patients, and it was this care for all of his patients that made him such a brilliant surgeon.

He was devoted to Barts, where his students loved him for his enthusiasm and his Bonfire Night barbecues, and he eventually retired as Emeritus Professor of Gynaecology. He continued to pass on his expertise as a Training

Programme Director for Junior Doctors and was involved in a Safe Motherhood programme in Ghana and Pakistan. In 1957, he married Caryl Shaw, whom he had met on a hospital ward whilst as a patient, recovering from a knee operation, and together they had three children.

Christopher Neville Hudson died on 8th February 2020.

Walton, DJ (1944, E)

Declan John Walton was a pupil at Radley (E Social) from 1944 to 1949. His brother Julian was a member of the same social exactly ten years later.

He was born on 13 August 1930 near Fermoy in County Cork, the son of Ernest John Walton, a Yorkshireman who had worked for a lumber company in Siam and retired to Ireland, and Diana Florence Cooke-Collis, a member of a County Cork landed family. His childhood was spent in a beautiful house overlooking the river Blackwater, the idyll spoiled only by the cruelties of an abusive governess; however, her strict discipline proved an asset when he went to boarding school and found that his powers of concentration took him to the top of the class.

He was educated at Castle Park School near Dublin before proceeding to Radley. It was not a good time for the college, with many younger dons serving in the war and their replacements not always suited to the profession of schoolmaster. Declan greatly enjoyed the history classes of the eccentric genius R.B. McDowell, later Junior Dean of Trinity College, Dublin, and one of the foremost historians of his generation. McDowell taught by lecturing, becoming so absorbed in his subject that he never noticed anything his pupils were doing, however outrageous; he never washed, was incapable of keeping order, and insisted on taking early morning classes from his bed.

When told in later years of Walton’s career in the United Nations, he exclaimed in surprise: “Walton? A very wild boy!” From Radley, Walton continued to Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1952 with a first class honours in Modern Languages. He then worked for four years as an “average adjuster” in the world of marine insurance with Marsh & McLennon in Montreal. When Ireland was admitted to the United Nations in 1955, he was ideally qualified for a post, and in 1956 he began work in the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. He was soon actively involved in the care of those fleeing from the brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising. From 1959 to 1962 he was the Commissioner’s representative in Morocco, with responsibility – in collaboration with the Red Cross – for the care of some 120,000 refugees displaced by the Algerian War of Independence, and subsequently for their repatriation.

He then worked in New York with the UN Economic and Social Department, and in Rome with the World Food Programme, before joining the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in 1968 as Chef de Cabinet to the Director General. From 1981 to 1985 he worked as an independent consultant, specialising in long-term planning, with assignments in Nigeria, Syria and the Netherlands. In 1986 he returned to the FAO as Deputy Director General, a post which he held until 1988. He then undertook a number of international assignments on topics related to agricultural and environmental issues in India, the Ivory Coast, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Taiwan, and retired in 2003.

In 1959, he married Jeannette Müller, a Swiss colleague. Their daughter Kathleen was born two years later – while Declan was in Rabat in audience with the King of Morocco! During their time in Italy, they bought a tumbledown fifteenthcentury farmhouse in the Tuscan hamlet of Oliveto, which they converted into an idyllic home. Here he was also well placed to pursue his interest in wines – he was for a time Chairman of the Rome Chapter of the International Wine and Food Society. Retiring to England, Declan and Jeannette settled in 1996 in the Wiltshire village of Steeple Ashton. Declan joined the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, of which he became convenor of the World Affairs Group. In addition to organising lectures by prominent international figures, he himself gave talks on a variety of topics, including the French symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé, of whom he was a passionate fan, paying for a new headstone on the Kensal Green grave of the young girl who was Mallarmé’s enduring love and whom he uncovered in the course of his researches.

Declan John Walton died on 5th April 2020.

Waterer, RD (1944, G)

Donald Waterer left Radley for his National Service in 1949, after which he went up to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Whilst there he won the Colquhoun Sculls in 1952 and was in the Cambridge University Trial VIII the following year. After completing his degree in Agriculture he went on to become a farmer in the West Country.

He married Susan Shaw in 1954 and they had three sons, all of whom attended Radley; Robin (1969), Rory (1971) and Jonathan (1973). He was known for being a wonderfully kind, generous gentleman, farmer, knowledgeable countryman, ornithologist, forester, oarsman, shot, historian, avid reader and wildlife conservationist.

Ralph Donald Waterer died on 4th June 2020.

Farrer, CJ (1945, D)

Following his brother Peter (1936) to Radley, Christopher Farrer also rowed for the 1st VIII in 1950 as his brother had done previously. Leaving College he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as an Entrance Scholar and studied medicine, qualifying in 1956. He would go on to spend over thirty years as a family doctor until his retirement in 1992. He also put his medical skills to use through involvement with the St John’s Ambulance in Kent and was an Officer of the Order of St John.

He married Rita Lyon in 1958 and together they had three children.

Christopher James Farrer died in November 2019.

Christopher Farrer (rear row, centre) in the 1950 1st VIII.

Wynne-Griffiths, DP (1945, H)

David Wynne Griffiths time at the College saw him awarded the History Essay Prize in 1949 and, after completing his National Service with the Royal Devon Regiment, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, reading Law. He was called to the bar (Gray’s Inn) shortly after completing his degree in 1955.

After this he worked in industry on the legal teams of a number of high profile companies, including Shell Petroleum, Gillette Industries, Tarmac Plc and Hanson over a 40 year career, retiring in 1992. He became Chairman of the Bath & County Club in 2001.

He was married twice, first to Gabrielle Brook-Hitching and then to Patricia Bland.

David Peter Wynne-Griffiths died on 20th May 2020.

Denyer, BP (1946, A)

Written by Linda Denyer. Brian Denyer recounted his days at Radley as happy years where he appreciated his education and facilities on offer. His time at Radley served him well.

On leaving Brian returned to his parents’ home in Windsor. He went to work for Windsor and Maidenhead Council and trained as, what was known then as, a public health inspector. His work there was interrupted for National Service in the RAF where he was assigned to the medical Corps for Public Health Duties.

He continued studies during his career including a qualification in Management. He left W and M to work for a large London Borough, Hammersmith and Fulham which, after several promotions, led him to be accepted as Chief Environmental Health Officer in 1976. He left in 1979 to become Director of Environmental Services for the City of Westminster. He enjoyed his time there and faced many challenges as he negotiated with his political masters in order to bring about much needed changes within a most central organisation.

He was well respected and held in high esteem by his colleagues and staff who knew that, although he could be a hard taskmaster, he was also fair and supportive. Brian Denyer He took early retirement in 1992.

Brian had so much to give professionally after his retirement but he felt it was time to remain at home choosing to do personal things he liked. He had an avid love of history – what he didn’t know wasn’t worth knowing – as well as enjoying gardening, cinema and theatre, holidays, reading, and visiting gardens and NHS Trust. He loved DIY and had an acute attention to detail when he was engaged in any project.

He enjoyed social contact but needed to be sought out rather than doing the seeking. As with most humans, Brian was dual natured. He had a wonderful smile, was stoical, self-effacing, loyal, kind, fair and patient. He could also get very angry and he had an acerbic way of speaking when he needed to make a point which served him well when he had difficult decisions to make.

Brian had several health challenges during the latter years of his life during which he showed great courage. He leaves behind me, his widow from his second marriage of 35 years, and a daughter and grandsons from his first marriage. He enriched our lives and is sadly missed.

Brian Paul Denyer died on 12th April 2020.

Thomas William Readett-Bayley (1947, D)

Son of TDR Readett-Bayley (1920), Thomas was joined at Radley by his younger brother John (1950), the same year he was selected for the 1st XV. Upon leaving Radley he initially got hands-on work as a farmer in Yorkshire before attending the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester in 1952.

He would spend the rest of his working life in farming, and was appointed Local Steward at Nottingham, Market Rasen and Southwell Racecourses.

He married Diana Taylor in 1962, with whom he had two daughters.

Thomas William Readett-Bayley died on 16th February 2018.

Thomas Readett-Bayley in the 1950 1st XV.

Scott, JSM (1948, C)

John Scott, known as Stanley during his time at Radley, had an illustrious career at Radley, playing for the 1st cricket XI, captaining the 1st XV and being named Senior Prefect in 1953. After national service in Negeri, Malaya, he went to Corpus Christi, Oxford, where he gained at the Victoria and Albert Musuem.

three rugby blues and was capped by England against France in March 1958. He was a member of both the NW Counties team that beat Australia in 1958 and the Cheshire XV that won the County Championship in 1960. In 1959 he was a member of the Oxford and Cambridge side that toured the Far East and captained the team against Malaya.

John Scott went on to play for Harlequins 1st XV 55 times from 1959 to 1968. He would have played many more times, but a serious shoulder injury stopped him playing rugby for a few seasons. After the Fine Art Society.

his last 1st XV game, he captained an ‘A’ XV. Many that played for that side will remember the strict sartorial standards he set. Jacket and tie were de rigueur off the field and clean white shorts and boots on it. Failure to comply resulted in a tonguelashing and a fine. His sporting prowess was not confined to dry land however, and he was a member of Great Britain’s America Cup team in 1964.

Completing his studies in Jurisprudence at Corpus Christi he was initially an Articled Clerk with Rowe & Maw Solicitors, but over the course of his life his main business become property management. He took a great interest in public spaces, of Radley’s rolling green acres. He was Project Leader and Co-Founder of Notting Hill Gate Improvements Group and was also responsible for Westbourne Grove Lavatories which received a Royal Fine Art Commission Award. In 2009, he was given the Mayor’s award for services to the community in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

His great passion, however, was fine arts, particularly sculptures and ceramics. His collection of 18th and 19th century ceramic tiles and decorative was recognised as one of the greatest in the world. His collection included furniture, glass, sculpture, art nouveau, art deco, arts and crafts, aesthetic movement and was featured in several exhibitions, including Indeed in 2007, the V&A awarded him the Robinson Medal, an accolade of rare distinction, in recognition of all his generosity and support.

Later in life he suffered from poor health, and donated most of his collection, worth £8M, to the V&A and to the Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford. Some items he sold to support a number of charitable causes such as the welfare of stray dogs and cats in Faro, Portugal, with items going to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Before sale, his entire collection was recorded in an eight catalogue series by which he attributed in part to the delight

A kind and generous man, for twenty years he took children with physical impairments for swimming lessons, he leaves behind countless legacies of a life well spent.

John Stanley Marshall Scott died in January 2020.

John Scott captaining the 1st XV in 1953, five years before winning his cap for England. John Scott’s collection of fine arts was seen as one of the greatest in the world.

Ferguson, JEI (1949, C)

Ian was born on 3rd August 1936 and died 3rd March 2020. He was at Radley (Cocks/Thompson C Social) from 1949 to 1955. After serving in the RAF for his two years National Service, he went to Queens’ College, Cambridge, and studied Architecture, qualifying as an architect in 1962. He spent the next 5 years in private practice before moving to the Scottish Development Department in Edinburgh.

He returned to private practice in Brighton until 1978 when he moved to Manchester firstly to the National Building Agency, then to the University of Manchester and then to UMIST. In 1991 he reverted to private practice, spending the rest of his days on the Isle of Arran. He was married from 1961-97 and had three children and five grandchildren.

James Edward Ian Ferguson died on 2nd March 2020.

Van Oss, P (1949, D)

Peter was the youngest brother of Richard (1944 and Senior Prefect on Peter’s arrival), and the youngest of three brothers. His father was the successful artist Tom Van Oss, who was tragically killed in 1941 in a small vessel which was hit by a magnetic mine off the Lincolnshire coast when he was inspecting his on-land camouflage effects from the sea.

Peter’s mother Favell (née Bevan) brought the three boys up and summer holidays with friends in Scotland and Jersey led to Peter’s lifelong love of outdoor pursuits and his becoming a member of The Natural History Society. In 1953 he went on The British Schools Exploring Expedition to British Columbia.

Due to a serious knee injury playing rugby at Radley, Peter was excluded from National Service but in 1954 joined Boots, starting as junior buyer, and in 1971 he became the youngest ever Director of Boots the Chemist which at that time had the largest chain of shops on the UK high street.

In 1975, Peter was headhunted to become Deputy Managing Director of Max Factor. After a period of running his own consultancy, in 1987 he worked in the UK for the Ruling Family of Dubai, managing a portfolio of extensive business interests, including a major London Hotel, over 300 West End flats, a leading Newmarket stud, The Racing Post, and a daily newspaper to name but a few.

Father of Mark, Anthony, Juliet and Katy, his two sons were both at Radley in C Social. In 2001 Peter married his third wife Sue Brown (née Gardiner) his D Social Housemaster’s daughter, and widow of Collin Brown (D Social). Peter and Sue moved to South Somerset where they became active in village life and entertained many OR friends and those with Radley connections who Sue had got to know through her 25 years of working for the Appeal and the Radleian Society of which she was an Honorary Member.

Peter was a keen gardener and set up a garden club for the village and its neighbouring one. He also completely cleared the very overgrown churchyard aided by willing local helpers. He was a founder member of the local wine club. Away from hobbies, he was Chairman of the Local Conservative Committee and spent many hours working on their behalf.

In his last few years Peter enjoyed eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren and regular fishing and shooting too, but sadly he suffered increased immobility and bronchial illhealth. Peter died with minimal suffering from coronavirus, aged 83.

Peter Van Oss died on 9th May 2020.

Pudden, AJ (1950, A)

Jonathan Pudden left Radley to go up to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on an Entrance Exhibition after two years

Peter van Oss National Service. Whilst there he was awarded the Worsley Prize and a Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Scholarship in 1959 to travel in Greece and Italy. He gained a 1st Class Classics Tripos and on leaving became a Schoolmaster in 1960.

By 1974 he was Headmaster of Brockhurst Preparatory School, which he had himself attended before Radley.

He stepped down as Head in 1997, but continued to teach until 2016. He was succeeded as Head by Nick Park (1961).

Antony Jonathan Pudden died on 1st May 2017.

William Wakeley (rear row, second left) in the 1954 Hockey 1st XI. Phoebe in 1950 and they had 3 children

William Jeremy Wakeley (1950, A)

Son of Sir Cecil Wakeley, Bt, William Wakeley went on to work at Wakeley Brothers, a Fruit and Hop grower in Kent. He worked there from 1961 to 1999, holding the post of Chairman.

In 1959 he married Veronica DunningAysh with whom he had three children. local choir and trying to keep pace with

His grandson, Jude (2015), followed him in attending Radley.

William Jeremy Wakeley died on 25th June 2020. Giles Philip Bartleet died on 9th April

Backhouse, CL’e (1950, B)

Christopher Backhouse found Radley in the early 1950s to not be a happy place and he did not enjoy his experience there. Leaving the College in 1955 he was commissioned into the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was to remain in the Army with the Light Infantry until he retired as a Major in 1978. After Radley he did a year’s apprenticeship company.

Upon leaving the Services he held a number of Directorships in Insurance and Investments and was also heavily involved in the governing of a number of state primary and secondary schools. He was twice married, and had two sons and three daughters.

20th September 2019.

Bartleet, GP (1950, B)

Upon leaving the College, Giles Bartleet went on to have a successful and interesting 40 year career in the wine trade, working for such companies as Bacardi-Martini. He married his wife, together.

Upon retiring to Romsey, he enjoyed fishing, watching cricket and singing in a eight grandchildren.

2020.

Lewis, JC (1950, D)

John Lewis (known as Jackie) joined Radley in 1950. He loved his time in D social and represented the school in Athletics and the 1st X1 in cricket in 1954 and 1955.

at Bristol Aircraft company before joining the Royal Artillery for his national service, where he spent most of his time in Nigeria. Having completed his national service, he went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge, to read engineering with the plan to join Pilkington Brothers glass Christopher l’estrange Backhouse died on

The untimely death of his father led to Jackie Lewis (rear row, centre) as part of the 1955 Athletics team.

him changing his plans and he took over the running of the family farm at Berwick in East Sussex. In addition to farming was a J.P. and became a prison visitor, rising to Chairman of the National Boards of Prison visitors around the time of the prison riots in 1986. He also served as chairman of the South East Ambulance trust and Eastbourne Health Authority trust.

He was a keen amateur sailor, competing successfully for a number of years in Class 1 Royal Ocean Racing Club events and competing in the Two Ton World Cup in Sardinia.

He was married twice, firstly to Julia Martineau, with whom he had a son Paul (1976) and a daughter. The second marriage was to Miranda Versen, with whom he had a son.

John Christopher Lewis died on the 28th of February 2019.

Harrison, RC (1951, D)

Sir Colin Harrison, succeeded his brother as 4th Baronet in 1955, whilst still at Radley. He went up to St. John’s College, Cambridge, before working for the family business, John Harrison (Stockton) Ltd, the oldest independent carton manufacturer in the UK.

Sir Colin was the last of the Harrison family to be involved with the business and is remembered by all those who knew him as a true gentleman, one of the good guys whose word you could trust truly was his bond. Colin had a real love for the business that bore his family name and a strong belief in the Harrison team.

As well as Chairman of the family business, he was Vice-Chairman, Darlington Building Society and a General Tax Commissioner.

He married Maureen Chiverton in 1963, and their son, John Harrison (1986), also came to Radley.

Robert Colin Harrison died on 23rd March 2020. Sir Colin Harrison.

Shawcross, BE (1951, G)

Sheridan Swallow (1963) writes: Brian Shawcross was a kind and gentle family man with a delightful sense of humour, he was that unusual mix of someone who was both a scholar with a huge range of interests and knowledge and a focussed and successful businessman, being one of the founders of Hunkydory Designs Ltd. He was a bright child who was reading fluently at the age of four and always retained a great love of books and learning, together with an enjoyment in sharing knowledge with others. During his time at Radley he was often out on his bike exploring the local villages or spending time helping the lock keeper at Sandford lock. After Radley he went on to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. At the age of 21 on a trip to the Isle of Skye he discovered a fossilised humerus and vertebrae which constituted the discovery of a new genus and species of ichthyosaur, the family of large predatory reptiles that were among the top predators beneath the waves at the time dinosaurs ruled on land. This was subsequently named Dearcmhara shawcrossi.

Later on in life he was very actively involved as a member of the Haberdashers Livery Company in the governance of their schools, becoming Master of the Company for the Millennium year, during which he oversaw the topping out of their new Hall and also the introduction, after 639 years, of women into the Livery. The as a Land Agent before taking a role a Lieutenant in the Sherwood Rangers

very best sort of Old Radleian.

Brian Ellis Shawcross died on 11th December 2019.

Robertson, IJ (1952, B)

Ian Robertson left Radley in 1956 initially planning to study and then practise Medicine, however this proved not to be the path that he followed. Instead he moved into the Law, where he had an a Senior Partner at Crutes in Newcastleupon-Tyne. He was involved in a series of successful irradiation test cases for British Nuclear Fuels Ltd in the 1970s and 1980s, and for the Chief Constables of Northumbria Police from 1980. He also had a speciality in complicated medical cases and defamation, numbering Kevin Keegan and Peter Beardsley amongst his clients. He was married to Janet and they had four children together.

Ian James Robertson died on 15th November 2019.

O’Connor-Fenton, TP (1952, C)

Timothy O’Connor-Fenton was a house prefect and member of the College Athletics team during his time at Radley, a broken collar bone in a school rugby match removing his chance of a place in the 1st XV.

His post-school career took him to work with Chartered Accountancy firm, Peat, Marwick & Mitchell in 1959. He was also Yeomanry (TA).

He married Caroline Clough in 1966 and they had a son and two daughters, one of whom married OR Robert Holmes (1981). Their son, Max, is a current boy at Radley.

Timothy Patrick O’Connor-Fenton died on 27th October 2019.

enjoyable career as a solicitor ending up as Timothy O’Connor-Fenton (rear row, third left) in the 1957 Athletics team.

Wallace, ED (1952, F)

Dr Euan David Wallace was the son of the eminent dermatologist Dr Hugh Wallace and Dr Nora Wallace.

He read medical sciences at King’s College, Cambridge, and completed his training at St Thomas’ Hospital. He was a house surgeon in ophthalmology under Harold Ridley at St Thomas’. In 1969 he passed the MRCP and took his new qualification to visit family in Uganda, where he worked voluntarily in Mulago Hospital as a physician for some months. Later he worked in a mining hospital in Zambia, where he also flew with the Zambia Flying Doctor Service.

Euan married Jill O’Sullivan, a ‘Nightingale’ nurse. They settled in East Harting, near Petersfield where Euan worked as a popular GP at the Swan Surgery. He loved his busy life with Jill raising a large family, surrounded by animals. Euan Wallace He was made for general practice. A consummate, affable clinician, he combined rigorous scientific principles with shrewd clinical acumen to all his work, which included roles as a GP trainer, palliative care physician, and clinical assistant in diabetes and dermatology. He was interested in patients as people and was more interested in their lives than their diseases. A colleague described him as “never being interested in status, power or money, but five minutes in his company would just make you feel better about life”. He described himself as a “hardy perennial, the longest-surviving medical wreck around”.

In 1992 whilst undergoing endoscopy he instantly recognized the cause to be a gastric malignancy, which turned out to be a high grade lymphoma. The subsequent partial gastrectomy forced him to retire early from general practice, but he returned to part-time work in palliative care. He developed a further malignancy, this time of the prostate, in 2002. Jill his beloved wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died in 2004. His son, Conan also died of the same disease in 2016.

Euan’s seven grandchildren became central to his life in his retirement. He also enjoyed playing the piano, singing in Petersfield Choral Society, playing tennis, travelling for ornithology and photography, but above all walking.

He lived by that G.M. Trevelyan line “I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.” He and his enormous labradoodle were well known for their gregarious “20-mile Wallace Walks” across the South Downs. He leaves three daughters and seven grandchildren.

Euan David Wallace died on 20th December 2019.

Watson, RP (1952, F)

Born in India, Roger Watson distinguished himself first at Radley, where he was an excellent Senior Prefect in 1956 and hooked for the 1st XV for his final two years, and then at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won an Exhibition scholarship. He worked for many years for the publishers, Longmans, Green & Co, before becoming Director of Statistics for Education.

He married Patricia Earey in 1963 and together they had four sons.

Roger Peter Watson died on 27th March

2020. Roger Watson as Senior Prefect in 1956.

Pow, DJ (1952, H)

At Radley he was a School Prefect, Head of Social and played rugby for the 1st XV in 1956. He was also Head of Drums Section C.C.F. and during his National service in the Royal Marines rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant.

After his National Service was complete, he joined Gerald Eve & Company where he qualified as a chartered surveyor. He moved on to Marler & Marler, then King & Co (which became King Sturge) where he became a partner.

Everyone who worked with David admired him for his determination to do the best job possible. He was a keen rugby player, captaining Haslemere Rugby club 1st XV, avid sailor and recreational skier.

After retirement he joined his church choir in Sturminster Newton and various other choirs where he enjoyed performing choral music. He also toured Europe extensively in his motorhome.

He married firstly Barbara, with whom he had five children, and secondly Diana with whom he had one daughter, Amanda. He was also a grandfather to eight grandchildren.

David John Pow died on 10th November 2020.

David Pow (rear row) in the 1956 1st XV. John Fuller-Sessions (front row, second right) in the 1957 Hockey 1st XI.

Fuller-Sessions, JF (1953, A)

Written by Colin McGarrigle: John’s father, an army officer, was killed evacuating troops in 1940, the year after John was born. His mother later married Colin Sessions, and their son Blair became John’s devoted brother. John went to Brambletye, and thereafter to A Social under the eagle eye of StewartMorgan. He had an illustrious sporting career, featuring over his last two years in the three major Radley first teams, and captaining the Rugby XV. He was considered totally reliable in every commitment, apart from his latin, and he was a fearsome sight with a sabre in his hand too. Naval section, Scottish Country Dancing, and standing tall alongside John Adcock, his Head of Social – no contest! He was to be one of the original Radley Galleons.

A busy gap year followed, and on to Trinity College – a paradise for a brilliant bunch of gifted men and women in Dublin. Here again he starred in the Trinity XV, playing at Lansdowne Road, and in College Park for the Cricket XI. In 1963 he had struck up what proved to be a lifetime partnership with Marion Hall, and they became a familiar and popular couple on campus, easily spotted courtesy of the vivid Radley rugby scarf which he wore night and day. After his Dip Ed at St Luke’s, Exeter, they married in 1965, and promptly set off for India – to teach at the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay. He was heralded as a sort of messianic figure, and not just for his cricketing skills. He captained famous Bombay cricket and rugby clubs, and found time to do lots of charity work, famine relief and the like. What a welcome back they had in 2019 – the Messiah had returned!

Three years on, and the family moved back to reality, and pretty harsh at that, at Campbell College, Belfast – a city ‘on edge’ in troubled times. So it was not surprising that when Colin McGarrigle made a connection and then an offer, the F-S family (now 4) moved to share the reins at Bramcote School, Scarborough. Together they weaved an exciting web of schooling for young Northern boys, and John’s share in all the fun and games was unquantifiable - inspirational, cultured, searching and yes, quirky at times – they simply loved him. To complete the family, Nick was born in York in 1974, and would follow the F-S path to Radley.

John loved his music (did he manage three or was it four notes on the euphonium?), and year after year, he kept the records, and took the pictures……… and peaked as the Admiral on the legendary Norfolk Broads holidays.

In 1983 John took the helm at Bramcote, and he began to spin his own inimitable web with Marion for another 7 years, inspiring the building of an Art and Music Centre - a spectacular monument of his love for Bramcote. He will be longremembered for championing those boys who were not going to be the stars on the games-field.

Some years earlier they had bought a fairly run-down farmhouse in Parwich, Derbyshire, and in 1990 when the F-S regime came to an end, they moved to their precious new home. From there, John gave Stancliffe a boost, took on a role as a stand-in Headmaster at Brocksford Hall, and thereafter was much involved at Lichfield Cathedral School for the next 12 years. He was always recognised as a measured, respected professional ‘hand on the tiller’.

Genuine retirement beckoned, but he was no slouch, and local cricket, Rotary, parish involvement, and his friends and family filled his days, while his beloved camera was his constant companion. His stunning bird pictures would have graced the Countryfile calendar.

Modest, never arrogant, ‘a very present help in trouble’, a wonderful husband, a cherished father, a friend to so many, a good listener, and often, with that forefinger pushing down the baccy in the pipe, he would have a moment of reflection before his wise and often amusing response.

‘A lovely man’, ‘a parfit, gentle knecht’…… no malice, never harsh, sometimes eccentric in his dress sense, John was a unique schoolmaster, who brought warmth, true and cherished friendship, idiosyncratic humour and so much colour into so many lives. Along the heavenly cloisters, you will pick him out easily, yes, with a scrum cap under the halo, but also with that Radley scarf around his neck.

John Fuller-Sessions died on 20th September 2020.

Perkins, RAH (1953, E)

The son of AC Perkins (1925), Richard was one of several cousins who attended Radley, both before and after his time here. Whilst at the College he won the Public Schools Sailing Championships in 1957.

After College he worked as a Director for several different companies and was made High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1997. He married Rosemary Balding in 1970, with whom he had two daughters.

Richard Arthur Herbert Perkins died on 13th January 2020.

Prescott, RBC (1954, A)

Robert Prescott was a second generation Radleian, with both his father, FJO Prescott (1921) and his uncle, CK Prescott (1923), coming to Radley. Robert went up to Worcester College, Oxford, on leaving Radley and trained as a Solicitor, ending up as a Partner in William Sturges & Co. He was also appointed Assistant deputy coroner for Inner London West.

Robert Brooke Cromwell Prescott died on 26th March 2019.

Bucknall, JWL (1956, B)

Written by his brother, Tim (1963). Born on 6 January 1943 to Bertram and Wendy Bucknall, James grew up in Somerset and Devon and was educated at Hawtrey’s Prep School and Radley (19561961).

On leaving school, James joined the Army, principally he claimed, because they would allow him to have his horse with him: a primary consideration in many of his life decisions. He commissioned into the Royal Dragoons on 21 December 1962. The Regiment had just returned from Malaya to Tidworth and James spent much of the following year converting from Saladin and Ferret armoured cars to Centurion tanks. Rising tensions and inter-communal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots necessitated the reinforcement of the British Forces in Cyprus to keep the peace and C and A Squadrons quickly deployed to RAF Akrotiri in February 1964.

Shortly thereafter, the role of keeping the peace in Cyprus was handed over to the United Nations and for a period James wore the blue beret of the UN before returning to the UK in early April. Later that year an unfortunate incident on Salisbury Plain, which occasioned the Adjutant’s mangled Land Rover to emerge from under the front of his reversing Centurion tank (much to the amusement of the Gurkha soldiers riding on the back deck), short-listed Lieutenant Bucknall ‘to a cast of one’ for a 2-year secondment to the Sultan of Oman’s Armed Forces. Following a 3-month intensive Arabic language course in Aden, James joined B Company the Northern Frontier Regiment and took command of a mixed platoon of Omani and Baluch soldiers.

Initially based for some 6-months on the remote Jebal Akhdar (the epicentre of the 1954-59 uprising and accessible only on foot) James then participated in the second-ever wheeled transport crossing of the Omani interior from Muscat to Salalah, over 650 miles, at a time when Oman boasted just 3 miles of Tarmac road between Muscat and the port of Muttra. This latter part of his secondment saw B Company deployed on operations to tackle the emerging insurgency in the Dhofar, where sadly, on 24 May 1966, the Company Commander Maj Hamish Emsley MC, was killed whilst on patrol in an RPG attack on his Land Rover.

In 1967, James married Anne Woolcott, whom he had met in Aden. After a short period in Germany with the Regiment, he was posted to the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, to complete an in-service Degree in Applied Science, which remained a source of enormous pride throughout his life. By this time the Troubles in Northern Ireland were in fullswing and on completion of his degree in 1971, he was posted to Antrim as a plain-clothes Intelligence Officer, complete with flared trousers and large sideburns. During this period he fondly recollected being roundly chastised by the President of the RAF Aldergrove Officers’ Mess for having archly observed in the suggestions book “that swede is not an officers’ vegetable!”

James retired from the Army on medical grounds in August 1972, whereupon he returned to his beloved Devon and bought a small farm on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life. In October 1974 James married his second wife Susie Willmott and together they set about

building a life around farming, raising a family and a shared love of horses. To supplement the sporadic income from various farming enterprises, James became a semi-reluctant Estate Agent and proficient (if idiosyncratic) builder, carpenter, hedge layer, plumber, dry stone waller and self-sufficient jack of all trades. In retirement, James rekindled his love of the Arabic language and re-visited Oman in 2010. On a visit to the Jebal Akhdar he was delighted to discover the storehouse hut he had commandeered as his accommodation some 40 years previously remained standing in a barracks that had changed little in the intervening period.

In the past few years, he was pleased put this knowledge of Arabic to good use by volunteering to assist the resettlement of a Syrian refugee family to Moretonhampstead, helping them to navigate the challenges of establishing themselves in a remote Devon village. James was a dedicated member of the South Devon Hunt and would ride out as often as he could, whatever the weather; frequently being one of the last to return. He took immense pleasure in being invited to be Field Master and dedicatedly served as a well-liked and respected member James Bucknall and chairman of the Hunt Committee for several years. James continued to hunt, much to the admiration of the field, at breakneck speed and with the reckless daring-do of a man half his age until the week before he died. A countryman at heart, he was never happier than when rounding-up stray cattle from the Moor astride his home reared horse ‘Splash’ in the company of his beloved collie Jake.

James had fond memories of his time at Radley where he boxed, played rugby and rowed for the school. One of his favourite party tricks was to demonstrate his school gymnastics prowess by doing handsprings at parties well into his 40s. James had an abiding admiration and respect for James Batten, a housemaster at Radley (but not his), who went on to become Headmaster of King’s College, Taunton: a key factor in sending his own sons there.

He is survived by Susie and his children Robin (from his first marriage), Kate, Sarah and Harry, and younger brother Tim, who was also at Radley.

James William Legg Bucknall died on 6th

October 2020.

Williams, RN (1957, B)

Following his father, RME Williams (1927), to Radley, Robert Norrie Williams was a School Prefect in 1961. From here he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, returning to Radley for reunions several times in the 1990s. Sadly the Radleian Society lost contact with Mr Williams shortly thereafter.

Crawfurd, RJ (1957, C)

Born in Calcutta (as it then was) Robert Crawfurd was the first of two brothers to come to Radley, Charles coming in 1962. Robert then went on to Edinburgh University to study General Agriculture, initially working for the Scottish Society for Research in Plant Breeding, before moving to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in 1971.

Here he worked in a number of roles concerning farming at the Ministry of Agriculture and Internal Affairs. Whilst there he also completed a Diploma in Adult Education at the University of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe). After a short time in the Zimbabwean feed industry, he returned to Scotland in 1987 to pursue similar roles.

Whilst overseas he joined the St John’s Ambulance Brigade in 1980, rising through Sergeant, Divisional Officer, Superintendent up to Area Staff Officer (training) before ceasing active service on his return to the UK.

He married Jacqueline Mackie in 1982, and together had a daughter, Emma.

Robert Julian Crawfurd died on Monday 10th March 2020.

Hepburn, JM (1957, C)

Julian Hepburn was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and spent over thirty years as a County Land Agent of Norfolk County Council. He was a Governor of Easton College and a member of the Norfolk Rivers Internal Drainage Board.

He was married with 3 children.

Julian Matthew Hepburn died in January 2020.

Hope-Cobbold, PW (1957, C)

Lieutenant General Sir Roderick CordySimpson KBE CB DL (1957) writes: Philip Hope-Johnstone joined the

13th/18th Royal Hussars in Germany in 1965 from Sandhurst where he had been a senior under officer. His impact was immediate. He was tall, good looking and hugely talented. Whilst most of us had to work very hard to succeed, Philip just went along at his own pace and still outshone most of us.

He was an outstanding tennis player but probably the most memorable thing about him was his utterly wicked sense of humour. On one occasion he hid a mouse trap in his tank for the Colonel’s inspection. He got his man and the rest of us were left in peace from an over enthusiastic commanding officer.

Philip’s postings away from the Regiment took him to Yorkshire as our link officer at the Training Regiment and then as Adjutant of The Queen’s Own Yeomanry and later as a squadron leader in The Royal Yeomanry. He was the perfect ambassador for a Regiment that recruited its soldiers in Yorkshire. He was a true countryman, a brilliant shot and made lifelong friends wherever he went. He commanded B Squadron, on a two year tour at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland. His squadron was well trained, happy and efficient. An excellent relationship was established with the RUC, thanks in a great part to Philip’s charm and determination to make it work. He was then posted to Ottawa as the Assistant Military Attache. No nation could have been better served on the diplomatic front. Many of the friendships that he made with other national attaches remained over the subsequent years. Philip’s final tour with the Regiment was as second in command and PMC of the officers’ mess. There was never a dull moment in the mess and many younger officers learnt the joy of Tio Pepe.

His final posting was as the Defence and Military Attache in the Oman. He adored his time there and maintained close friendships with many of his fellow attaches until his death. Only a week before the COVID 19 lockdown, he went back to the Oman for his final reunion. With the huge contraction of the Army in 1992, he decided to draw stumps and took voluntary redundancy.

Philip changed his name to Hope-Cobbold when he inherited the vast Grade 1-listed Glemham Hall and its estate from his uncle. Philip had been born at Glemham. The Cobbolds were the great brewing dynasty of East Anglia and wonderful philanthropists. Glemham Hall urgently needed considerable restoration. Philip and his wife, Raewyn, set about the task enthusiastically within the limited cash available. The house had to be reroofed and the formal gardens restored. The tasks were endless but slowly but surely the great house came alive again. A very successful wedding venue was established and countless couples have been married by Philip, with most of the guests in fits of joyous laughter.

He became a director of Ipswich Town Football Club. His grandfather had taken the amateur side and turned it into a professional side personally underwriting the huge change. Philip was passionate about the team and regularly attended matches. He was much loved by the players, his fellow directors and its supporters and the tributes poured in within hours his death. All spoke of his charm and wonderful sense of fun.

Philip involved himself in countless charitable activities in Suffolk and Glemham Hall was the venue for many charitable fund raising events, thanks to Philip’s generosity. He became President of the RBL in Suffolk and gave them his endless and unstinted support. In 2005 he became the High Sheriff. He was exceedingly active throughout Suffolk, supporting and encouraging every conceivable activity. As the heating in Glemham Hall was always somewhat limited, he was spared having the High Court Judges opting to stay with him except in Summer.

Philip’s other great love was the Highlands of Scotland. Each year he rented a large remote lodge which had once been part of his family’s estates. For two weeks the great house was full of young [and not so young] fishermen, deer stalkers, painters and walkers. Philip was the most wonderful and generous host. Like all good soldiers who have marched to the sound of the guns, Philip became quite deaf as age crept up. His rich booming baritone voice got louder with each glass of red wine and his wonderful sense of humour became even more outrageous.

Although he would never have boasted about it, Philip came from a very Philip Hope-Johnstone

distinguished lineage. On his father’s side there was a princess, an earl, a commander-in-chief of the NORE and a general. On his mother’s side there was a duke, a prime minister by marriage and his great grandmother, the redoubtable Lady Evelyn Cobbold, had toured most of the Middle East on a camel before cars were invented.

Philip sadly lost Raewyn to cancer in 2017 and shortly after he handed over Glemham to his son Tom. His sons Tom and Tim, his grandchildren and his step children; all of us who were privileged to have served with Philip; Ipswich Town Football Club and nearly everyone in Suffolk have lost a true, kind and hugely generous friend who never said an unpleasant word about anyone.

Philip, we will all miss you and will drink a very large glass of red wine in your memory but “we are where we are” and will “keep b*******g on” as you would have said.

Philip William Hope-Cobbold died on 8th July 2020.

Lewis, JHR (1957, H)

Richard Lewis, who has died at the age of 76, was a man of great integrity and principle, whose preaching was shaped by a desire that people might work towards making sense of faith in a challenging and diverse world.

He was born John Hubert Richard Lewis in 1943, the second of three children to John, Archdeacon of Hereford, and Mary (née Griffin). He had warm memories of his young childhood adventures in Cornwall, a place with which he felt a great affinity, and returned to regularly throughout his life.

Educated at Radley College and then Kings College London, he started his career as curate of Hexham, Northumberland, and married Sara in 1968. Between 1970 and 1982 he worked as Industrial Chaplain and then Communications Officer in Durham, during which time he and Sara had three sons and enjoyed family holidays on the Northumberland coast. He retained fond ties with the north east. The family then moved to Shropshire, where Richard worked first as Hereford Chaplain for Agriculture, then as Archdeacon of Ludlow. Here he was heavily involved in the Tenant Farmers Association, and rural affairs was a thread which ran throughout his career. A former member

Richard Lewis as Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich. of his staff said “his approach to ministry could be framed by the title of a report he co-authored [in 1986]: ‘The people, the Land and the church’.

Richard was consecrated at Westminster Abbey in July 1992 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, as Bishop of Taunton. In 1997 he was appointed Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, where he served until his retirement in June 2007. Here he oversaw the completion of Bury St Edmunds Cathedral Millenium Project, marked by a visit from HRH the Prince of Wales, who had taken an active interest in the project. He led the church in Suffolk during a tumultuous time locally, nationally and internationally, and was increasingly unafraid to voice his opinions on a range of issues.

Richard used his maiden speech in 2002 in the House of Lords to highlight the diverse and hidden challenges of predominantly rural communities; subsequent speeches included campaigning on behalf of Amnesty International for the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He was a fierce critic of the government’s policy in Iraq and of America’s part in the war against terror. Richard spoke in a gentle and richly resonant voice which belied the often trenchant and fastidiously researched messages he conveyed so articulately.

Richard’s response to the controversy in 2003 over the proposed appointment to Bishop of the openly gay Canon Jeffrey John does not define him; however it does represent his lifelong, uncompromising commitment to open-ended inclusivity in the church and in wider society. One of the few bishops at the time to go on the record (and encourage others) to denounce homophobia, he said “it is a very sad day for the Church of England when possibly one of the most democratically appointed bishops has to withdraw because of the pressure applied by a minority of people.” The ensuing vitriol he received did not deter him from raising questions about ethics and the morality of the day. As Patron of Changing Attitudes, he was outspoken on such issues because they mattered to him, and he believed the church should represent the diversity of creation, listening to people talk from different perspectives. Believing passionately in social justice and the church’s responsibility to reach out to those who were hurting, he championed the charity Somebody’s Daughter, set up in the aftermath of the killings of five women in the Ipswich area in the winter of 2006. The loss of his son, Pete, some years earlier gave him a point of identity with grieving families and bereaved parents, and he gave many people help during this time of crisis. He had admired the communities of Suffolk for pulling together through this dreadful time: “Right from the start it was clear that people were not being judgmental about the lifestyle of the victims. They saw them as women in trouble.” A week before Christmas that year Richard stood on the pitch before 20,000 fans at Ipswich Town’s football stadium to lead prayers to the women at the start of a match against Leeds United.

Richard was a compelling story-teller and an attentive listener, a superb conversationalist who put everyone in his company at ease. As a Commissioner with the Rural Development Commission and then president of Suffolk Agricultural Association, he once again employed his knowledge and experience of the agricultural sphere, hugely enjoying the annual Suffolk Show. He had also been able to offer support at the time of the swine fever and foot and mouth crisis, attending farmers meetings and standing with them in solidarity.

Former colleagues remember Richard as someone who cared for and looked after all of his staff, inspiring their loyalty and commitment. Persuasive recruitment tactics secured him the right people for the job, and included chocolate biscuits, coffee and an audience with Ollie, the beloved family dog. (It is thought that on one occasion this was designed to deflect attention from a potentially off-putting filing ‘system’ in the office).

Richard strived for an inclusive and liberal church regardless of sexuality or gender. Appointing many women to parochial posts, he was a vocal supporter of the move towards women in the episcopate, determined to see more women as active members of the church, as incumbents, and ordained as bishops.

Theologically, he did not always endear

himself to the evangelical wings of the church, writing in retirement, “As a bishop I was nettled by accusations that I was neglecting or even worse, undermining 1662 [the Book of Common Prayer].” Acknowledging the dilemma of providing services which appeal to different people, he said: “In musical terms it is like an orchestra trying to serve the whole community but confined to playing music by only one composer.”

A deft and prolific writer, in later years Richard continued to pen articles for church publications, and published a meticulously researched book detailing his family history, ‘Sampans and Saffron Cakes.’ He was given to sending postcards and letters to his grandchildren - always in blue fountain pen - and latterly became an enthusiastic tweeter, posting his grandfather Fritz’s diary entries and the occasional scathing comment about the Tory government. He was still lobbying his local MP about a range of issues just weeks before he died.

Richard and Sara retired first to Norfolk, and then to Herefordshire, where they enjoyed cycling and pursued a love of photography and art. Richard remained involved in the community, litter picking with a volunteer group and campaigning in elections with the local Labour party. He was a skilled carpenter and was still working on an intricate model of the HMS Victory in his final months.

He is survived by Sara, his sons Mike and Nick, and grandchildren Sam, Tom, Patrick, Freddie and Gwen.

John Hubert Richard Lewis died on Saturday 19th September 2020.

Dogilewski, AJ (1958, E)

Alexis died in October 2020 from a short illness. He was a keen sailor and a founder of ORSA, remaining life commodore up to his death. Over the years he helped drive the ORs vs Current Boys racing weekend and the Winchester Cup (Public Schools Old Boys Sailing) as well as many other sailing related activities with the school.

He leaves behind 2 children and 7 grandchildren, that he was very fond of.

Alexis John Dogilewski died on 7th October 2020.

Hayes, ND (1961, F)

Written by Simon Sanders (1960). My memories of my friend Nick at Radley are first and foremost of the heady mix of mischief, optimism and laughter which he carried with him and which made him such good company. He shared a study in F Social for three years with the equally humorous Bernard Cazenove, and my memory (from a safe distance in C Social!) of these two together is that they were never very far away from a bit of rule-breaking, often at the expense of their tutor Paul Crowson.

The apochryphal story of answering the phone in Crowson’s study in his absence with “Hello, Crowson here” in perfect imitation of Crowson’s sing-song voice, only to be greeted by the same sing-song voice at the other end of the phone “Oh that’s funny, Crowson here too” was universally attributed to Nick and Bernard. Bernard reminds me that the two of them were not unaccustomed to beatings from their Tutor and from the Warden.

Nick was not very interested or successful in the academic side of school life, but he excelled at sports: cricket and hockey, and as I personally remember him best, in the First XV rugby team where his stocky build, low centre of gravity, but great speed made him a very good wing three-quarter. Pity the opposition full-back having to

Alexis Dogilewski face Nick in full cry, ball in hand, flying down the touchline towards him. His time at Radley was followed by a spell in the Army where, true to form, according to Wendy, his wife of 50 years, “he got on with all, except the Sergeant Major”.

The manufacture of top quality and very stylish contemporary furniture was in the Hayes genes, and after completing a scholarship course at the newly-opened London School of Furniture in Shoreditch, Nick joined the family firm of Collins and Hayes furniture makers in 1969 working alongside his father and older brother Peter. His people skills made him a naturally successful Sales and Marketing Director, a role which he held for thirty years until the company was sold in 1998; he then continued to run the business under new ownership until retirement in 2006.

Nick played a lot of squash and loved his golf, with memberships at The R&A, Rye, Royal Ashdown, and Minchinhampton; he was Commonwealth Liaison officer for The Lucifer GS; he enjoyed family holidays at their house in Cornwall where he was also a member at Trevose. An accumulation of sporting injuries however led to arthritis and later complications. He and Wendy met in 1968, married in 1970, and had three children, Joanna, Lizzy, and James who followed his father to Radley.

Nicholas David Hayes died on 19th February 2020.

Hughes Hallett, A(1961, C)

Professor Andrew Hughes Hallett was one of the world’s leading economists and a member of the Scottish Growth Commission, as well as a professor at a number of prestigious academic institutions.

Andrew Hughes Hallett was Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and in the School of Economics at St Andrews University in Scotland. Previously he was Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University and at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.

Having initially entered the Navy (where he rowed for the Dartmouth VIII), he went on to read Economics and Maths and

graduated from the University of Warwick and London School of Economics. He held a Doctorate from Oxford University, was Visiting Professor and Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University, Bundesbank Professor at the Free University of Berlin, and held visiting positions at the Universities of Warwick, Frankfurt, Rome, Paris X, Cardiff, Copenhagen and the Kennedy School at Harvard.

Beyond the academic world, he acted as consultant to the World Bank and the IMF; also the Peterson Institute for International Economics; and to the UN, OECD, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, to various governments and a number of central banks. Hughes Hallett was an honorary professor at the University of St Andrews and was a key member of the SNP’s Sustainable Growth Commission.

Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, led the tributes to the professor on New Year’s Day.

“So very sorry to hear of Andrew Hughes Hallett’s passing—he was an accomplished economist, with the finest of intellects and, above all, a thoroughly decent man. My thoughts are with all who loved him.”

Andrew Hughes Hallett died on 31st December 2019.

Andrew Hughes Hallett

Harding, JP (1966, E)

From the Burnley Express, 16th March 2020. Born in Rinteln (A British army barracks in Germany), he grew up in Wiltshire and was educated at Radley College. He went onto Bristol to gain a law degree and became a barrister. He gained a second degree in English Literature and in 1995 bravely turned his back on his career to open Roundstone Books on Lowergate, Clitheroe. His partner, Catherine, met Jo a few days after he had opened Roundstone Books, and they spent 20 extremely happily years together.

In 2003, Roundstone Books moved to Moor Lane and changed names to Clitheroe Books as it became an amalgamation of Roundstone Books and Moorside Books run by David Sedgewick. They ran the business together until 2010 when David died. He was an avid reader and writer of poetry. Organising poetry readings and events in the town, he set up Clitheroe Books Press with Theresa Sanderson to enable local poets to see their writing in print.

Remembering Jo, Theresa said: “Clitheroe Books was a stand-out shop and its proprietor a stand-out man. We edited several poetry collections over the years under the imprint Clitheroe Books Press, where we were proud to discover and publish some of the area’s best emerging poets. But it was Jo’s poems, with their erudite mix of philosophy, politics and playfulness, infused with warmth, wit and his trademark humanity, that always left me feeling: Damn, I wish I’d written that. Jo was not afraid to speak up for others and the causes he believed in, and his bookshop was an enclave of common sense and compassion. He will be sadly missed.”

Jo was instrumental in helping Clitheroe achieve and maintain its Fairtrade status for the past 10 years. A keen gardener for the past 15 years, he grew his own organic fruit and vegetables. A lover of music, once he reached 60 he decided to learn to play the guitar and have singing lessons and he switched his poetry writing to song writing. He loved sport and was an accomplished athlete in his younger years. Two hip replacements in recent years enabled him to take up running again, he discovered Parkrun and was overjoyed to be able to run with Catherine, his daughters and grandchildren, his last big run being the Ribble Valley 10k in December.

Paying tribute, Catherine said: “Jo was a wonderful father to two daughters, Rebecca and Emma, and five grandchildren, Lewis, Imogen, Amelie, Toby and Reuben, he was also a devoted stepfather to my two children Jordan and Jessamy. Jo had so many interests and hobbies. He was passionate about justice and the environment, never one to just sit still or be quiet if his voice could make a difference, he was often asked to speak up at council meetings for those whose voices were not being heard. Obviously, he was also passionate about books and loved reading, hence the shop, but he was looking forward to retirement and was hoping to spend more time gardening, reading, making music with friends Martin and Jeremy and to have time to volunteer with Parkrun, Ribble Rivers Trust and the Foodbank.

Jonathan Patrick Harding died in 2020.

Fyfe-Jamieson, DR (1967, B)

Written by Stephen Lacey: David, better known to many as Fyfe or Fyfie, was a rule unto himself. He was not actually anti-establishment, nor was he a true rebel. He just looked at things in his own way. He could see the absurd in situations and was happy to exploit them.

His best Radley mate, Martin Pope tells the story of how one afternoon they were coming back from their exertions in the 3rd XI Hockey team (‘best hockey team ever’ according to David) and found a long line of nervous, expectant youngsters awaiting the off signal for the junior crosscountry prize run. They exchanged eye contact and without further ado bellowed “GO!” The poor junior don who was in charge at the other end of the line had no idea what had happened and only managed to haul the errant runners back after a kilometre or two.

At Radley, David distinguished himself on the cricket field, playing for the 1st X1 in both 1971 and 1972 seasons. He was a penetrative fast bowler, claiming the largest aggregate of wickets of any bowler in both seasons, 23 and 33 respectively, including two hauls of 7 for 20 and 6 for 19 in 1972. He was a fine golfer, doubtless inspired by the example of his much-

David Fyfe-Jamieson

loved step-grandfather, Roger Wethered, and Roger’s sister, Joyce Wethered, later Lady Heathcoat-Amory, who were both outstanding British golfers of the interwar period.

After Radley, David chose to eschew University. His oldest friend, Henry Wyndham (later chair of Sotheby’s in London) describes David as being very bright without ever stretching himself. They both ended up in Paris, their avowed intention being to learn French and to look at paintings. To that end, they enrolled at the Sorbonne. Henry says that he lasted a week, ‘which was twice as long as David’. They spent several months getting up late, meeting for a coffee at the Trocadero, followed by lunch at Chartier and then on to the cinema for the weekly Marx Brothers Festival. ‘We’d regularly take in three films in the same afternoon ... re-emerging at 7.30pm, bleary eyed, ready for a three course dinner. .... We may not have learnt much French but we became word perfect in Groucho Marx speak.’

Eventually, they called it a day. David went first to Australia where he had family connections and then to South Africa, where he began his career in the art world working for Wildenstein. He found his way back to London and joined the Old Master Paintings Department at Sotheby’s, becoming in time an astute and respected expert. He is said to have had an ‘exceptional eye’. He certainly made some significant discoveries and was an effective business getter. He later worked for a time for Artemis, a leading Old Master Art Consultancy before going out on his own, taking offices in the West End. His timing was not good, coinciding as it did with one of the worst ‘blips’ in the art market.

At the beginning of the millennium, David left London and went to live in Shropshire. There, he reinvented himself as a cabinet maker/furniture restorer extraordinaire. It didn’t come completely out of the blue, although to many it must have seemed as though it did. Apparently, he had come across a set of woodworking tools that had belonged to his father. At the same time, he got to know the best cabinet maker in Shropshire, David (aka ‘Chippy’) Ackroyd. To start with, David worked for Ackroyd as his apprentice (or Sorcerer’s apprentice, as another friend described it), a relationship that developed to one in which they came to share a palatial workshop, working in partnership on some projects and independently on others. David was both trained and trained himself to be a fine craftsman in wood, making many prized pieces of furniture.

David took to country life with great aplomb. He was occasionally invited as a day gun to a family shoot in mid-Wales. There he was nicknamed ‘Vladimir’, owing to the Astrakhan hat he sported. He was also unmistakeable for his constant loyal companion, a woolly chocolate Sussex spaniel called Phoebe. He was a keen and successful fisherman, as witnessed by the accompanying photo showing David with his record catch on Mull.

David was always a bon-viveur: once, faced with the choice between buying a painting by Gerard de Lairesse or a motorbike, the motorbike prevailed. On another occasion, it could just as well have been the other way round. He was very attractive to women. He ever had a pretty girlfriend on his arm or in the passenger seat of his beloved Aston Martin. At the same time, he had a generous and kind nature, encouraging young people and patiently teaching them woodworking skills in the workshop. He will be missed in that respect, as in many others. He took on many parts in life. He was an accurate mimic and had a good sense of humour.

He was an accomplished pianist who loved the music of Handel and Schubert in particular. He was both well-read and widely knowledgeable. Following on from his father, he was a good photographer and darkroom technician. Indeed, he was gifted in many ways. To end, this quote is taken directly from Henry Wyndham’s address at David’s funeral service:

“He was an exceptional, original human being who had more friends than wood shavings on his workshop floor. He was much loved because he rarely said anything bad about anyone and always looked for the good in people. After a difficult childhood, there was no self-pity. He was brave to the end and took whatever life flung at him. His life had more chapters than a Russian novel.”

David Robin Fyfe-Jamieson died on 16th October 2020.

Palgrave Brown, NI (1967, D)

Nigel Palgrave Brown died suddenly, but peacefully at home on 2nd October 2018, aged 64. A keen birdwatcher, sailor, angler and racehorse enthusiast, he will be sadly missed by his daughter Stephanie, ex-wife Helen and sister Alexandra.

Nigel Ian Palgrave Brown died on 2nd October 2018.

The boys, sitting in their Social bubbles, return to Chapel for the first time since March 2020.